217 words come out when you unscramble PENTACTS, starting with PENTACTS itself: 12 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. CATNEPS and PENTACT are the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from PENTACTS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 7, 19 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 57 with 3 and 15 with 2.
Combined: NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words 2024, WOW24 and Words With Friends together. Rude words are left out.
Among 60 5-letter words from PENTACTS, the top score is 9, reached by 9. STATE, SPACE and SPENT are the familiar ones.
8 of 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble PENTACTS tie at 8 points; none scores more. CASE, PAST and STEP will look familiar.
57 3-letter words in PENTACTS; 4 of them share the top score of 7. CAN, SET and ACT are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of PENTACTS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PE · ending in TS · all 8-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; ASPECT, EPACTS and PECANS (10 points each) share the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts PENTACTS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PENTACTS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 217) | 180 | 217 | 170 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
37 of the 217 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PENTACTS, CATNEPS, PENTACT, CATNEP, PANCES, CANTEST, PANCE, PATTES, PESANT, SCEATT, TAPETS, PATTE and 25 more. 10 of the 217 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SPECT, CENTAS, TECS, PST, TEC, ATS, EST, SAN, TES and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of PENTACTS spell the words below.